European Art Mannerism Distortion of light and space
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European Art
Mannerism Distortion of light and space to enhance emotion n Greek painter working in Spain n – el Greco
El Greco “The Holy Family” – Spanish Renaissance
El Greco “A View of Toledo”
El Greco “Christ”
Baroque Extreme use of detail, movement, light and drama in a search for beauty n Rembrandt van Rijn n Peter Paul Rubens n Diego Velazquez n Caravaggio n
Rembrandt n “Christ in the Storm…”
Self-portrait n Rembrandt n
“Night Watch” Rembrandt
“The Syndics of the Clothmakers’ Guild” Rembrandt
Rubens n n “I’m not fat – I am Rubensesque” “Portrait of Helene Fourment”
n n Rembrandt “Venus at the Mirror”
Velazquez n “Las Meninas”
Caravaggio “Judith Beheading Holofernes”
Rococo Baroque led to the overly-ornate or gaudy form of rococo n Louis XIV – “I am grandeur incarnate” n Reaction against rococo extremes led to neo-classicism n
Neo-Classicism Enlightened Reason n Return to Rome and Greece n Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres n Jacques-Louis David n
n n Ingres “Napoleon”
Ingres “La Grande Odalisque”
David “Oath of the Horatii”
n n David “Death of Marat”
“Death of Socrates” David
n “Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine” David
“Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass” - David
“Coronation of Napoleon” David
Romanticism Reaction against Neo-Classicism n Eugene Delacroix n Francisco Goya n J. M. W. Turner n William Blake n Thomas Gainsborough n
n n Delacroix “Greece Expiring. . ”
“Liberty Leading the People” Delacroix
“Lion Hunt” - Delacroix
“ 3 May 1808” - Goya
“Family of Charles IV” - Goya
JMW Turner – “The fighting ‘Temeraire’ tugged to her last berth to be broken up”
JMW Turner “Calais Pier”
Blake – “Newton”
n n “Blue Boy” Gainsborough
Gainsborough – “Mr. and Mrs. Andrews”
Realism was a reaction against Romanticism – influenced by the developing Industrial Revolution n Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot n Edouard Manet n Edgar Degas n Thomas Eakins n
Corot “Ville d’Avray”
Manet “The Luncheon on the Grass”
“A Bar at the Folies Bergere” - Manet
Manet n “The Fifer” n
n Manet n “Portrait of Emil Zola”
“La Classe de Danse” n Degas
“Stage Rehearsal” Degas
American – Thomas Eakins n “The Gross Clinic”
“The Oarsmen” Eakins